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Boethus in Wikipedia

Boethus (Greek: Βόηθος) was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age, a native of Chalcedon. His date cannot be accurately fixed, but was probably the 2nd century BCE. He was noted for his representations of children, in dealing with whom earlier Greek art had not been very successful; and especially for a group representing a boy struggling with a ...

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Caecilius of Calacte in Wikipedia

Caecilius, of Calacte in Sicily, Greek rhetorician, flourished at Rome during the reign of Augustus. Originally called Archagathus, he took the name of Caecilius from his patron, one of the Metelli. According to the Suda, he was of the Jewish faith. Next to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, he was the most important critic and rhetorician of the Augusta...

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Callicrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

An architect, who, in conjunction with Ictinus, built the Parthenon at Athens, and who undertook also to complete the Long Walls termed σκέλη (Pericl. c. 13). He appears to have flourished about B.C. 440....

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Bias of Priene in Wikipedia

Bias (Greek: Βίας ο Πριηνεὺς, 6th century BCE), the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus puts him as the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece. One of the examples of his goodness is the legend that says that he paid a ransom for some women who had been taken prisoner. After educating them as his own daughters...

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Caesarion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καισάριον). The son of Cleopatra , said to be hers by Iulius Caesar. Plutarch calls him the son of Caesar, but Dio Cassius and Suetonius doubt the assertion. He was put to death by Augustus Caesar. See Dio Cass. xlvii. 31; Iul. 52; Aug. 17....

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Boethus of Sidon in Wikipedia

Boethus of Sidon (Greek: Βόηθος; c. 75-c. 10 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon, who lived towards the end of the 1st century BC.[1] As he was a disciple of Andronicus of Rhodes,[2] he must have travelled at an early age to Rome and Athens, in which cities Andronicus is known to have taught. Strabo, who mentions him and his brother Diodo...

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Bias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

One of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was son of Teutamus, and was born at Priené, in Ionia, about B.C. 570. Bias was a practical philosopher, studied the laws of his country, and employed his knowledge in the service of his friends, defending them in the courts of justice, settling their disputes. He made a noble use of his wealth. His advice, t...

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Bias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

One of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was son of Teutamus, and was born at Priené, in Ionia, about B.C. 570. Bias was a practical philosopher, studied the laws of his country, and employed his knowledge in the service of his friends, defending them in the courts of justice, settling their disputes. He made a noble use of his wealth. His advice, t...

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Caesarion in Wikipedia

Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar (June 23, 47 BC – August 23, 30 BC), nicknamed Caesarion (little Caesar) Greek: Πτολεμαῖος ΙΕʹ Φιλοπάτωρ Φιλομήτωρ Καῖσαρ, Καισαρίων, Ptolemaĩos Philopátōr Philomḗtōr Kaĩsar, Kaisaríōn was the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, who reigned jointly with his mother Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Septemb...

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Brasidas in Wikipedia

Brasidas (Greek: Βρασίδας) (d. 422 BC) was a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels by the relief of Methone, which was besieged by the Athenians (431 BC). During the following year he seems to have been eponymous ephor (Xen. Hell. ii. 3, 10), and in 429 ...

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